Jock Thompson

John Dawson Hedley Thompson was a Scottish-born Welsh international lawn bowler who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Introduced to bowls by his father in 1938 and moved to Wales at the end of World War II. Thompson was a Welsh international from 1961 to 1973 and captain from 1966 to 1968. Thompson bowled for and captained Wales in the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in New South Wales, Australia.
Thompson won the 1965 fours title and 1982 pairs title at the British Isles Bowls Championships and the Welsh National Bowls Championships, when bowling for the Rhiwbina Bowls Club.
Thompson was a civil servant by trade represented the Welsh team at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he competed in the pairs event, with Ellis Stanbury.
Four years later he won a bronze medal in the men's fours at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton with Ellis Stanbury, Gwyn Evans and Ian Sutherland.
Thompson died in Glamorgan in February 2000, at the age of 80.